IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985TN053001
  • User Pedon ID: 85TN053001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985TN053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0121
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57926
  • Print Date: 5/5/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.0005569
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1744461
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4.0 mi NW of Eaton,.7 mi SE of intersection of Bluff Rd & old SR 104, 2 mi NW of intersection of Bluff Road.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN053—Gibson
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.C.Jenkins, D.E.Lewis, L.Brown, and D.K.Brasfield
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GLMA4

    GOSSY

    Glycine max

    Gossypium

    soybean

    cotton

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—17

    38—200

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    86

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    126

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    17

    24

    2

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    1Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00770; moist when described;. common fine and medium roots throughout
    1AE—17 to 38 centimeters (6.7 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00771; moist when described;. common fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—38 to 70 centimeters (15.0 to 27.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine and medium roots between peds; 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00772; moist when described;. Split for sampling purposes.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few to common fine and medium roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 219795; continuous - phpvsfiid 219795
    1Bt1—70 to 113 centimeters (27.6 to 44.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine and medium roots between peds; 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00773; moist when described;. Split for sampling purposes.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few to common fine and medium roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 219796; continuous - phpvsfiid 219796
    1Bt2—113 to 137 centimeters (44.5 to 53.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00774; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219797; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219797
    1Bt3—137 to 200 centimeters (53.9 to 78.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 86P00775; moist when described;. Horizon 2C was sampled with sample No. 86P0776.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219798; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219798